Word: folklorists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accent (CBS, 1:30-2 p.m.). Part 2 of Folklorist J. Frank Dobie's recollections of the Old West...
Eager to see and experience the world he lives in, Barry Goldwater is almost too versatile to be true; a businessman, politician, jet pilot, folklorist, explorer, photographer and athlete, he is as modern as tomorrow. Yet at the same time, there is in both the individualist Goldwater message and the self-reliant Goldwater manner an echo of the Old West. Appropriately, the man himself is heir to the spirit of a pioneering family in a state barely one generation removed from the frontier...
Died. Percy Aldridge Grainger, 78, lanky, white-shocked Australian-born pianist and folklorist whose fame as a serious artist and the composer of Brigg Fair, Molly on the Shore and Country Gardens was equaled by his fame as a serious eccentric who often hiked to concerts carrying a knapsack, was married in the Hollywood Bowl before a delighted audience of 22,000, abhorred meat, tobacco, coffee, tea and alcohol but adored cheese, raw vegetables and a half-and-half mixture of cold milk and hot water; of cancer; in White Plains...
...President Homer Rainey, who had accused them of imperiously firing facultymen with a total disregard for academic freedom. The regents replaced Rebel Rainey with a tamer president, Zoologist Theophilus S. Painter, who devoted himself to fruit-fly research. They also dumped famed Author J. Frank Dobie, Texas' top folklorist, who refused to stop protesting the Rainey firing. By the time Texas-born Logan Wilson became president in 1953, the eyes of U.S. scholars were on Texas as a good place to avoid...